The producer of the controversial anti-Islam film “Innocence of Muslims” has been arrested for violating terms of his probation and is set for an appearance this afternoon in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.

Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, is scheduled for an initial appearance before Judge Christina Snyder, who sentenced him in June 2010 following a bank fraud conviction.

Investigators have not yet provided details about how Nakoula allegedly violated probation, but it seems clear that his involvement in the “Innocence of Muslim” production is central to the government’s new charge.

Nakoula (seen above) was sentenced to 21 months in prison to be followed by six months in a halfway house. Upon completion of the custodial term, he was placed on probation for five years.

Included in his probation terms were prohibitions on his use of the Internet, unless he secured prior approval from his probation officer. Additionally, he was not to “use, for any purpose or in any manner, any name other than his/her true legal name or names without the prior written approval of the Probation Officer.”

Wanna bet if this guy was, say, tweeting articles from Talking Points Memo, the feds would not have descended on him — twice?

Muslims keep trying to get this idiotic movie, which had nothing to do with the terrorists attacks on our embassies, taken off YouTube. The Obama administration leaned on Google to help out, but Google said the film doesn’t violate any of its standards. So much to the administration’s shagrin, the movie stayed up on the net.

But who’s to say the feds can’t arrest Nakoula and get him to take the movie down? Then they’ll let him go. That’s where this is going.

Obama sings himself to sleep with “My Sharia-more.”

Go ahead, America. Re-elect him.

Bryan Preston has been a leading conservative blogger and opinionator since founding his first blog in 2001. Bryan is a military veteran, worked for NASA, was a founding blogger and producer at Hot Air, was producer of the Laura Ingraham Show and, most recently before joining PJM, was Communications Director of the Republican Party of Texas.

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Boy, those mideast muslims will really like us and not want the destroy America any more now! (Sorry, Free Speech and the First Amendment got trashed– a sacrifice for “social justice,” you know.)

And the Proggies will laugh and laugh and laugh as our heads roll from the scimitars of the Muslim Horde.

Shari’ah is here. For Progressive Policies to have ANY chance, more than 25 Million People need to die, and that’s based on our population in 1979. Now, we’d probably need about 100 Million to die.

Bill Ayers dream is coming true, and all he needed was a friend who could be that perfect bridge between the Leftist anti-West dreams (of Barack’s mother) and Islamist anti-West Dreams (of Barack’s father).

I think it is time to come up with Plan B, whatever Plan B might be. But we are losing, though (gut-feel) far from having lost (though I am mentally getting ready to write off the next half-decade to decade.)

If this Islamo-Marxist is re-elected, it will be much more than a lost decade because it will be a clear indication that the entire concept of America is over.

With everything we’ve known about him becoming more common knowledge and still not making a dent in voters’ minds – 50 to 60 million people still looking at this joke of an administration and saying, “yeah, give me more of this” – then it’s not Obama that’s the problem; he’s just the personification of it.

Lenin, Stalin and Kruschev, et. al. must be looking up from Hell and smiling while they watch Ms. Obamaphone cheer for more freebies. The strategy of taking over the film industry and infiltrating the public education system (especially schools of law and journalism) decades ago has finally come to this point.

Osama bin Laden, even in Hell, must likewise be doing the happy dance as Obama is delivering the triumphs Bin Laden sought in life. Pro-Western Arab regimes are being overthrown and replaced by Islam-friendly regimes. The US is losing influence and withdrawing from the region, while still funding these new regimes – thus advancing the cause of Islam.

It wasn’t/isn’t just Hussein Obama, Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice,and Baghdad Bob Jay Carney who perpetrated this Goebbels level Big Lie. CIA head Imam David Petraeus is also guilty. In fact it was probably that b-astard’s idea.

It wasn’t/isn’t just Hussein Obama, Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice,and Baghdad Bob Jay Carney who perpetrated this Goebbels level Big Lie. CIA head Imam David Petraeus is also guilty. In fact it was probably his idea.

This is a good article except for this passage: “Muslims keep trying to get this idiotic movie, which had nothing to do with the terrorists attacks on our embassies, taken off YouTube.”

We, that is every American, should feel no need to comment on the quality or the content or whether or not it had anything to do with Muslim riots or Muslim anger.
We don’t need to call it idiotic or disparage it in any way or make excuses about who is responsible for it. Addressing the movie in this way only shows weakness.

Our issue is NOT Muslim anger caused by a movie or anything else they decide offends them. We have no control over them. Our issue is NOT who does or does not respect “The prophet of Islam” Our issue, and what we have some measure of control over, is the defense of our constitution. All we we need to say; all we should say is “In America we have freedom of speech and it’s guaranteed by the First amendment to OUR constitution, don’t try to tell us what to do in OUR country. We will defend our constitution by defending the rights of Americans.” “Riot if you wish, but be prepared to suffer the consequences if Americans or American embassies are harmed.”

I hate to say this but that feeling has been stalking for me some time too. If one side has no will to fight, military superiority is irrelevant. It seems that the American left has come to the point where they are so delusional they will not even fire a shot in self defense.
They perceive conservatives, the very people who are trying to protect their rights as well as those of other free people, as more of an enemy than a seventh century cult of death which seeks the destruction of all infidels.

In an 1818 letter to H. Niles John Adams wrote: “But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations.”

Adams, in the next few paragraphs, describes the changes that had taken place in the Colonists opinions of Great Brittan and then says: “This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.”

I fear that a counter revolution in “the hearts and minds of the people” has already been “effected” because we have allowed the left to commandeer the media and the educational system. I fear the war will soon “commence”.

That some one as radical as Obama is even a serious candidate, and now a serious contender for a second term is proof that America is in a very precarious position.

The left isn’t delusional. They’re not the ones who aren’t firing a shot. They’ve already jumped the fence and started FIRING SHOTS AT US FROM THE ISLAMIST SIDE.

It’s US who won’t fire a shot back, because we’re so damned afraid of the left bringing the Full Power of the State to bear against us, and because WE’RE so delusional that we refuse to believe that they could so willingly and gleefully jump the fence like that.

Remember. Bill Ayers said that AT LEAST 25 Million Americans needed to be killed in order to implement their system, and THAT was back with 1970s population levels. That would likely be around 100 Million who need to be killed now.

And the similarly Death-Obssessed Islamic Hordes would only be too happy to oblige that.

The theme of the article may be more prophetic than its satirical title. Thomas Woods describes in his “Who Killed the Constitution” how Pres. Wilsom literally shut down the “free speach” of the opposition to WW I participation by America. In WW II FDR not only placed American Japanese in camp containment, but also 11,000+ German Americans (most of whom were citizens, though they tended to be from relatively newER immigration). The key to silencing speech is “emergency”. If Obama can have any one of us liquidated at his disgression, I trust him fully to figure out an “emergency” which requires a Wilson-like suppression of free speach re Islam, the so-called Prophet or the peaceful integrity of that religion.

But few Americans are noticing the most critical difference between previous American wars and this one: in the past, Christians affiliated with the Americans were free to teach, and preach and spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ the Son of God in every country that we sent our military to. Our missionaries followed our armies, and shared the love of Jesus Christ through donations taken in the the churches to fund the humanitarian aid that always poured out to help rebuild after the battles.

In these wars – under both Presidents – our military and congressional leaders have refused to allow Freedom of Religion to members of the US military, have refused to insist that Christians be allowed to freely and safely practice our faith, which includes telling others about it, have refused to aggressively protect missionaries and insist they be allowed to stay in place and preach openly.

What a terrible, sad result. Neither Republicans nor Democrats have learned that it is our first freedom: Freedom of Religion, on which all the others rest, including free speech. Once they limited a soldier’s right to give a bible to the local people, the rest was only a matter of time.

Even so, of course Jesus Christ has already won. He won 2000 years ago. So be of good cheer: God’s strength is shown most in our weakness!